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From: BAILEYS@FSU.BITNET (NOLES #1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Drachen and Mah-Jong
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Date: 5 Dec 89 04:20:24 GMT
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>I agree, Drachen is great!  One question, though:  I thought Shanghai was
>an implementation of Mah-Jong?  Is it really just a variant of `Drachen' in
>colour?
>- David
>(forster@cs.umass.edu / forster@umass.bitnet / david%cousteau@cs.umass.edu)

Well, Shanghai and Drachen both use the same game space and rules, so they
are identical simulations of something, but I don't think it is really
Maj-Jong.  I believe 'real' Maj-Jong has more tiles, but I am not sure.
Being a big Shanghai/Drachen player, I would certainly like to know for sure,
so are there any Maj-Jong players out there?  Fill us in!!

Oh, by the way, Shanghai works in mono too, but is even harder to play than
in color (which is saying something).


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